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Adiós Barcelona :( ... Bonjour France again!! Headed into the cute seaside city of Nice today via a place called Arles. Arles was built by the Romans back in the day so the buildings were very old with arches everywhere lol. They had a little coliseum in the town and there was actual a bull fighting event taking place but we didn't have time to watch it. I had one of the best kebabs ever there for lunch, it's was ...

... hesitant and curious, I pulled to the side. Two cops walked out of the car. Approached me and asked for my license. [Note: this whole following conversation takes place in french]Gend'arme: You have a license Mister? M: Yessir I do, ofcourseG: Can we take a look at it?M: Here it is.G: Do you know why we stopped you.M: Actually, je ne sais pas.G: Really?M: Absolutely have no idea what I didG: (looks at the american license) This is an ...

... we had to board our next train without a ticket. No problem. We were able to book on the train with the conductor. We arrived at San Remo around 3pm and it was a lovely sunny day. The beaches are much nicer over this side of Italy and they have sand as ...

For our last day in Nice we did a touristy thing and went to Colline du Chateau. It was really cool and we had a great time climbing on things, playing, and taking pictures doing it. Historically what I learned is that castle hill was considered to be the cradle of the town of Nice. It was later converted into a park in the 19th century. The castle did have a really cool waterfall and got some great views of all Nice. Michelle and I like playing this game ...

We were given seats and settled in for the 4 hour trip. The saving grace was a lovely Swiss couple we shared the compartment with. The young woman was Canadian and had moved to Switzerland and married a Swiss guy. We got on really well and chatted most of the way. We hope that they will visit us in Australia with their two young sons some time.